Hi there,
I had to make some fixes to some plug-ins, which used more or less the SIMD filtering approach in the SIMDRegisterDemo. The problem was quite simple: when the host called processBlock regularly with a smaller buffersize than reported in prepareToPlay, the SIMD IIR filtering just exploded with very loud output (reaching over 500dB), as it was basically filtering garbage.
The culprit basically was line 94 of the SIMDRegisterDemo:
Maybe it should be replaced by something like the following, to prevent users like me from a mistake when using the demo code in an audio plug-in.
const SIMDRegister<float>* chPtr[1] = {interleaved.getChannelPointer (0)};
AudioBlock<SIMDRegister<float>> ab (const_cast<SIMDRegister<float>**> (chPtr), 1, n);
iir->process (ProcessContextReplacing<SIMDRegister<float>> (ab));
I know, it’s not pretty, I am sure it can be written in a more elegant way.
To give some more info about the problematic situation: it happened when using a plug-in host like Bluecat Patchwork in Logic, as it always prepares with 1024 samples but sends buffersize according to Logic’s settings. When they are the same, there’s no problem at all.